2007-09-10 06:17:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Father K, nice answer!
2007-09-10 06:24:03 · update #1
A group of bored science fiction writers with too much time on their hands.
2007-09-10 06:22:34 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You can read the entire history of it at:
http://urantiabook.org/web_intro1.htm#WhoWroteIt
In the last fact-finding; scientific and relgious analysis, the origin of The Urantia Book was mysterious. Religious Tolerance website has been questioned as a reputable resource by Wikipedia. The claim The Urantia Book was channeled has been refuted. The claim The Urantia Book is a cult is false. The claim The Urantia Book is Satanic is also false.
Check out the link above.
Additional comment: Sorry, Father K, but you need to do more research. You are mistaken.
2007-09-10 13:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
During the 1920's and 1930's, a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. W.S. Sadler (1875-1969) became very interested in an unusual case. Sadler had been asked to examine a patient after the patient's wife noticed he was talking in his sleep, and seemed to be speaking for various super-mortal personalities, called revelators. The name of the patient has been kept secret and the exact manner of communication is not clear. However, Dr. Sadler insisted that this process did not involve spiritualism, channeling, or automatic writing. The contact personality was entirely unconscious (asleep) during the transmission, and had little or no interest in the process when awake. The material that eventually became the Urantia Book was received during the years 1934-35. Sadler organized a group of interested persons, called the Forum, to review and discuss this material. The Urantia Foundation was founded as a non-profit educational and publishing group in 1950.
2007-09-10 13:24:26 · answer #3 · answered by phrog 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Nobody knows who wrote it, probably in the 1930's.
Best guess is a group of people including William S. Sadler, (1875 - 1969) an American psychiatrist.
See the discussion on Wikipedia
2007-09-10 13:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by Sandy G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Urantia book is a momentous work consisting of 2,097 pages of material received from numerous celestial beings supposedly brought to the earth by superhuman, divine beings in 1934. It was brought to earth by the “Orvonton administrators” (p. 354), and the “...Nebadon commission of twelve acting under the direction of Mantutia Melchizedek,” (p. 1319). Its claim is that it is the “finest major divine revelation since the coming of Christ to our planet.”
However I have a very different view; as it is a momentous false revelation of mans spiritual heritage, spiritual figment of imagination that uses the Bible to promote its own teachings.
In other words, it's even more whacky than Scientology, but without a good P.R. Department or famous celebrities pushing it.
2007-09-10 13:22:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
From a human being, just like all books.
FYI: Kerry Livgren of the rock group "Kansas" was a follower of Urantia until his conversion to Christianity.
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2007-09-10 13:32:43 · answer #6 · answered by Stranger In The Night 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's another "channeled" new age text from the post-spiritualist period. Read the wikipedia article. Don't give away your money or your power to make rational choices.
2007-09-10 13:23:54 · answer #7 · answered by djnightgaunt 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
MI-6 and the CIA created that cult.
2007-09-10 15:11:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
From someone's vivid imagination. It's a hodge-podge of several religious concepts. I would not want to stake my life on it.
2007-09-10 13:26:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Probably latent mental illness along with heavy drug use.
2007-09-10 13:21:05 · answer #10 · answered by mattgo64 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋